Lancione, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-9018-3562 and Rosa, E. (2017) Going in, out, through: A dialogue around long skirts, fried chips, frozen shacks and the makeshifts of ethnography. City, 21 (2). ISSN 1360-4813
Abstract
In this paper, we shift from conventional academic writing toward something similar to a dialogue, an encounter, a few hours spent in a virtual café where we chat and systematically try to excavate our respective ethnographic endeavours. Such experimentation in format is needed, we argue, in order to re-approach the questions characterising in-depth ethnographic work from a different, possibly fresher, perspective, and to communicate those more directly and freely. Rather than embedding our doubts, fears and wishful thinking in academic formalism, we spell those out aloud, as a composite and unfinished flow that touches upon relevant literature but is still raw and grounded in our current and respective fieldwork. Relying on our differentiated works with Roma people in Italy, France and Romania (2004–ongoing), in our dialogue we talk about the challenges of positioning; the construction of new (self)identities; the building of relationships of trust, care and affect, and their break; the role of ethnographic knowledge in activist work; the risk and the certainty of failure; the difficulties associated with entering and leaving the field. The aim of our dialogue is not to offer answers to questions that have been at the centre of the ethnographic discipline since the start, but to open a space of incremental and reciprocal learning that may serve as an inspiration for other young ethnographers like us.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in City on 14 Sep 2017, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2017.1353335. |
Keywords: | ethnography; ego-geography; city; margins; Roma people; Turin; Marseille; Bucharest |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2017 14:25 |
Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2019 01:39 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2017.1353335 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13604813.2017.1353335 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:122939 |